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Feb 4, 2016

The Battle of Dover

Not only are the British and other Europeans forced to accept mass
immigration, but if and when they get incensed enough to demonstrate
against it, they can expect a visit from the various groups — some of
them state and trade-union funded — that make up the antifa, with the
inevitable violence that this leads to.

We saw this pattern repeated yet again
at Dover where around 200 anti-immigration demonstrators were recently
confronted by a roughly equal number of antifa.

Because of the attentions of the antifa, the simple act of publicly
voicing opposition to mass immigration tends to select for a certain
type, one who is not adverse to a bit of violence himself.
Anti-immigration protesters have to be robust and ready to “handle
themselves” in difficult situations. This, of course, suits the purpose
of the antifa, who wish to stigmatize anyone who opposes mass
immigration or migrant invasions as a thuggish “neo-nazi” A compliant
media helps to drive this message home.

By creating as much anarchy, violence, and unpleasantness as
possible, the antifa hope to prevent the vast silent majority of
relatively normal people from joining these demonstrations. In that
respect, the antifa fulfil their purpose and have already, in a sense,
won their victory just by turning up.

But there are signs that keeping the lid on opposition to immigration
in this way is starting to unravel. The Pegida movements that have
spread to several European countries have taken to the streets but are
working hard to avoid the street thug image, wrapping their message in
heavily Christian symbolism. A similar strategy was also followed by
Britain First, who recently marched through an Islamized part of Bury,
white crosses in hand, in a disciplined and effective operation designed
to “trigger” Muslims into revealing their arrogance and contempt for
the native English.

In addition to nationalists adopting new and more effective tactics,
another problem for the pro-immigration antifa Left is that they seem to
be having trouble attracting or mobilizing the right kind of people to
fight their street battles. Back in the 1980s and ’90s, this essentially
middle class movement could rely on tough, radicalized trade unionists,
with experience in picket lines and other forms of physical
confrontation, to provide the necessary working class muscle.

But thanks to Britain’s neoliberal economy and its dependency on
immigrant labour, the radical working class whites, who provided the
most effective contingent in the antifa ranks, have become an endangered
species, forcing the antifa to rely more heavily on “soft” middle class
anarchist types and a few non-whites, whose evident lack of martial
spirit is the reason their countries were colonized by Britain in the
first place and hence one of the reasons they are now in the UK.

By contrast, the nationalist, anti-immigrant side, although vilified
and politically disenfranchised by the current system, still enjoys
connections with the white working class, and is able to recruit the
kind of lads who are more than a match for the average antifa.

The events at Dover seem to bear this out, with antifa coaches being
attacked and damaged at a stop on the way to Dover, while in the town
itself the antifa came off worse in various skirmishes, as Civil Liberty reported.

On the day, about 200 ‘anti-fascists’
gathered in Dover listening to speeches by black Labour MP, Diane
Abbott, and Weyman Bennett, a black SWP Trotskyite from the far-left
Unite Against Fascism campaign group, among others.

A similar number of nationalist
protesters also gathered with large numbers of police officers, some in
riot gear, and police vans, keeping the two sides apart.

Apparently, a large group of anarchists
left during Bennett’s turgid speech and attempted to confront the
nationalist protesters before their march started.

They were met by a smaller group of
nationalists, who routed the anarchists in hand-to-hand fighting. A
small group of anarchists were trapped after the street fighting and had
to be given police protection for their own safety.

Civil Liberty also reported that the day ended with a short rally by the nationalist protesters who claimed victory.

For too long the antifa have been able to inhibit legitimate
anti-immigrant protests and have them characterized as violent and
atypical — even though it has almost always been the Left who start any
violence.

It is ironic then that by serving the globalist neoliberal elite in
this way, they have effectively destroyed one of the bases of their own
strength, the radicalized unionized white working class; while the
immigration threat they have facilitated also seems to be having a
galvanizing effect on the still relatively small numbers of Britons who
realize they are involved in an existential struggle for survival.